â€œIâ€™m Polish,â€? he says. â€œThat makes me stubborn and mean. And Iâ€™m bald, so I can make fun of chubby people. â€¦ Youâ€™ll never get a hubby if youâ€™re a chubby.â€?

He also throws cupcakes at chubbies at his health club, the Anti-Gym, with a spot downtown and a new one in Cherry Creek. His in-your-face attitude and edgy marketing on TV and radio have made Karolchyk â€œThe Most Hated Man in Denverâ€? says a recent profile in Mile High Sports Magazine.

â€œI get e-mails every day that say â€˜I hope you die,â€™ â€? Karolchyk says, or yells really. This guy is intense, like Bruce Willis imitating Jack Nicholson on a gallon of Red Bull yelling â€œYou canâ€™t handle the truth!â€?

Anti-Gymâ€™s motto is â€œHave Sex with the Lights On.â€? The look of the gym is industrial. Near the workout area is a â€œBARF BUCKETâ€? for people who push themselves too far. A roster keeps track of how people are doing at Anti-Gym: Deanâ€™s List, Jimmy Deanâ€™s Sausage List and the Fatso List. If you slack off in an drill, your entire group is punished.

The menâ€™s and womenâ€™s locker rooms lead to a co-ed shower area. And then thereâ€™s the Ravish Room, a private room with a hot tub and sauna and shower that through a secret code only admits men with 11 percent body fat, women with 16 percent body fat. â€œItâ€™s the hardest club in Cherry Creek to get into,â€? says Karolchyk. â€œIt doesnâ€™t matter who you know or who your daddy is or how much money you have. And what happens in the Ravish Room stays in the Ravish Room.â€?

Not much ravishing going on there during my visit this week as it was still under construction. Thatâ€™s what Anti-Gym feels like. A edgy, politically incorrect work in progress.

It costs about $30-$40 a session and they suggest a few sessions a week. You can see all of it at theantigym.com â€” and Comcast is about to start airing â€œAmerican Chubbyâ€? hosted by Karolchyk and Lisa Pelster, who looks like she lives in the Anti-Gym.

Friday at 5 p.m. thereâ€™s a staged anti Anti-Gym demonstration in front of Cold Stone Creamery in Cherry Creek, supposedly organized by the Colorado Over-Weight Society (COWS). Anti-Gym enthusiasts will stage a Anti-COWS demonstration. Then thereâ€™s a â€œSex with the Lights Onâ€? party at Brix at 6 p.m. What a town!

Bill Hustedâ€™s column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on â€œGood Day Coloradoâ€? on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-954-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.